WINSTON-SALEM – On the day Wake Forest retired Chris Paul’s jersey, the Demon Deacons could have used some of the energy and enthusiasm that the NBA All-Star routinely displays.

Wake Forest was outrebounded, outhustled and outgunned in a 67-57 loss to Maryland in Atlantic Coast Conference action on Saturday at Joel Coliseum, giving C.J. Harris a sour note after he was honored during Senior Day festivities as the lone scholarship senior.

“They got to most 50-50 balls, they killed us on the glass and we turned the ball over too many times,” said Wake Forest junior Travis McKie. “Hitting shots or not, you can’t win if you do those three things, so that’s what cost us the game.”

Shooting was also a problem for Wake Forest (12-16 overall, 5-11 ACC), as it made 16 of its 49 (32.7 percent) shots from the field. Harris led the Demon Deacons with 19 points, but the usually efficient guard needed 16 shots from the field to get there, hitting just five of them.

Harris said the main problem was that the Demon Deacons were frozen on offense for too many long stretches of Saturday’s game.

“I think all night we were just standing around too much. One person would have the ball and everybody would just stare at the ball,” Harris said. “We have to do a better job of moving, cutting.”

Those possessions were never more evident in the last five minutes of the game, when Wake Forest made just one field goal and had four points. The Demon Deacons rallied to within four points of Maryland twice in that stretch, but never got any closer.

Wake Forest’s 18 turnovers led to 20 points for Maryland, with most of those points coming from Dez Wells. The sophomore scored a game-high 23 points without taking a jump shot, blitzing the Demon Deacons in transition.

“We didn’t do a good job of taking care of the ball and that allowed him to get in the open court and do what he does best,” McKie said of Wells.

It wasn’t necessarily that Maryland (20-9, 8-8) was better than Wake Forest – the Terrapins committed 19 turnovers and shot a combined 17-for-47 without Wells’ 11 of 12 performance.

But Wake Forest was outrebounded 41-30 and outscored in the paint 46-18 against the sizable Maryland team.

“We just needed to play better. Turning the ball over 18 times and so many of them were bad turnovers, turnovers that led to points,” Wake Forest coach Jeff Bzdelik said. “Obviously they had … 20 points off turnovers and then to be outrebounded by 11 really is a recipe to get beat.”

“They’re a big team. They’ve got a lot of big guys up front and we don’t,” McKie said. “We played them before, we knew what to expect and we just didn’t adjust and we didn’t do a good job of that.”

Page 2 of 2 - TIP INS …:While Wake Forest has another home game a week from today against Virginia Tech, the game against Maryland held the Senior Day distinction because spring break begins this week. … Saturday marked the second straight game that Wake Forest’s Codi Miller-McIntyre scored just five points. He also had five turnovers. … Wells was the only Maryland player to hit more than three shots and score in double figures. … Paul’s No. 3 was unveiled at halftime alongside banners of Josh Howard and Paul’s former coach, the late Skip Prosser. Paul told the crowd he didn’t know where it be place in the rafters prior to the game, but that “it’s very fitting to go next to my coach. I love you Coach Prosser.”